Advisor to the Iraqi PM and Iraqi Climate Change Envoy, Iraq’s Ambassador to the United States of America from November 2016 till 2022. He served as the Ambassador of Iraq to France between 2010 and 2016. Worked as a researcher in the field of physics, and as a consultant in the field of technology management. He also served as Director of the Information Program at the United Nations Secretariat on Climate Change and as a consultant at the RAND Corporation. He was a consultant at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He is the founder and director of mafqud.org.